Top 100 Marilyn Manson Quotes
#1. The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
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#2. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.
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#3. To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.
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#4. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
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#5. Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.
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#7. If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
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#8. Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.
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#9. As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.
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#10. I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
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#12. The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.
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#13. Yet. I'm starting to think that if the Internet is the CB radio of the nineties, then the home computer is the trailer park of the soul, a dangerous tool in the hands of idiots. Eventually self-imposed fascism will destroy man as he convinces himself he doesn't have to think anymore. SEPTEMBER
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#14. You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that's the first rule I will institute.
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#15. If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.
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#16. Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.
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#17. If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
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#18. This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?
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#19. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you're the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet.
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#20. My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.
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#21. The key to changing the way people think is to change what's popular. That's why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it - and then overcome it.
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#22. I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,
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#23. If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
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#24. What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
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#25. I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist, and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.
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#26. Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
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#27. Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me.
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#28. The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.
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#29. People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.
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#31. I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.
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#32. It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp.
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#33. When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
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#34. Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.
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#35. Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.
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#36. My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.
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#37. If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons
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#38. I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.
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#39. Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.
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#40. People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don't believe that their position is an enviable one!
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#41. I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'
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#43. The most outragous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch
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#45. [ ... ] extremes - whether good or bad - don't fit into society's definition of normality
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#46. Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
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#47. I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
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#48. Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
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#49. I'd like to think that I'd helped people all over the world to question the things they otherwise would have accepted as the truth. I'd also like to think that I'd charmed them a bit with my lovely vocal stylings and the baring of my lovely arse.
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#50. My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
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#51. The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.
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#52. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.
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#54. Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.
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#55. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
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#57. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
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#58. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.
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#59. All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.
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#60. Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.
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#61. Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.
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#62. I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.
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#64. If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
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#65. Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
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#66. I still get excited performing live. when you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.
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#67. If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
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#68. If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
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#69. You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.
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#70. I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.
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#71. These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
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#72. Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?
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#73. My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
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#74. There's nothing that anyone could say about me that would hurt my feelings.
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#75. It isn't hard to find a person whom I could fall in love with, to give her romance. But it's hard to find such a person who would understand your view on life, accept who you really are and would truly care for you.
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#76. everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.
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#77. People don't keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell but they want everyone to know.
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#79. We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.
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#80. I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.
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#81. A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.
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#82. I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
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#83. There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
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#84. Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.
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#85. The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
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#86. Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
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#87. You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.
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#88. Everybody's someone else's nigger
I know you are so am I
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers
I don't need to chose a side
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#89. I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.
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#90. We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.
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#91. There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.
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#92. When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'
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#93. I never really hated one true god
But the god of all the people I hated
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#94. I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams ... It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.
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#97. Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar
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#98. The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
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#99. Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to be like us, I want you to be like you.
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#100. That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.
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